…there is the case of Belvedere Park 1970, when the Eastside riots erupted out of police suppression of the Chicano Moratorium against the Vietnam War. The riot inspired a local band, The VIPs, to change their name to El Chicano. They then had a hit with “Viva tirado”—a cover version of black jazz composer Gerald Wilson’s tribute to a Mexican bullfighter—and went on tour with Earth Wind and Fire and became the first Chicano band to headline the Apollo Theater in Harlem.